Lumière & Company
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
Release Date:
1995-12-20
Runtime:
88 minutes
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Directed by:
Lasse Hallström Vicente Aranda John Boorman Alain Corneau Raymond Depardon Francis Girod Abbas Kiarostami Cédric Klapisch Spike Lee Claude Lelouch Michael Haneke David Lynch Wim Wenders Costa-Gavras Theo Angelopoulos Peter Greenaway Hugh Hudson Gaston Kaboré Andrei Konchalovsky Bigas Luna Sarah Moon Arthur Penn Helma Sanders-Brahms Jerry Schatzberg Nadine Trintignant Fernando Trueba Liv Ullmann Jaco Van Dormael Régis Wargnier Yoshishige Yoshida Zhang Yimou Merzak Allouache Gabriel Axel James Ivory Patrice Leconte Ismail Merchant Claude Miller Idrissa Ouedraogo Jacques Rivette Youssef Chahine Lucian Pintilie
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Starring:
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Jeff Alperi
as Policeman (segment "David Lynch")
Romane Bohringer
as (segment "Claude Miller")
Bruno Ganz
as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Ticky Holgado
as (segment "Claude Lelouch")
Alan Rickman
as (segment "John Boorman")
Liam Neeson
as (segment "John Boorman")
Stephen Rea
as (segment "John Boorman")
Sven Nykvist
as (segment "Liv Ullman")
Lena Olin
as (segment "Lasse Hallström")
Pascal Duquenne
as (segment "Jaco Van Dormael")
Nathalie Richard
as Ninon (segment "Jacques Rivette")
Neil Jordan
as (segment "John Boorman")
Aidan Quinn
as (segment "John Boorman")
Isabelle Huppert
as Narrator (segment Abbas Kiarostami) (voice)
Otto Sander
as Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Max von Sydow
as Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
Spike Lee
as Self (segment "Sarah Moon")
David Lynch
as Self
Zhang Yimou
as Self
Jacques Rivette
as Self